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(Application filed July 16, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY BRAOKEBUSH, OF PAOKWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BINDING MECHANISM FOR HARVESTING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,307, dated. January 1, 1901.

Original application filed March 20, 1900, oerial No. 9,427. Divided and this application filed July 16, 1900. Serial No. 23,7811 \N 0 model.)

To a, w/tmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BRACKEBUSH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Packwaukee, in the county of Marquette and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Binding Mechanism for Harvesting-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to binding mechanism for harvesting-machines, particularly to the means for evening the butts of the grain on the grain-deck as the grain is delivered to the binding mechanism and for massing the grain on the grain-deck preparatory to its engagement by the packer-arms and stoparms in the formation of the gavels; and it consistsin the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

My present invention is a division of the application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 9,427, filed by me March 20, 1900.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a portion of a harvestingmachine provided with. butt -evening and grain-massing mechanisms constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. 4

The frame 1 of the harvester is of suitableconstruction. The elevator conveyor 17 receives cut grain from the platform conveyer and delivers the same onto the inclined graindeck 30.

32 represents the roller-shaft which operates the conveyor 17, said roller-shaft having a sprocket-wheel 36 at its rear end and a spurwheel 37. At the front end of the said rollershaft is a miter-wheel 59, which engages a similar gear-wheel 60 on a shaft 61, that conveys power to the reel. An endless sprocketchain 56 engages the sprocket-wheel 36 and communicates power to the roller-shaft 32.

A packer-shaft 53 is journaled in a suitable framework 54, which supports the grain-deck and is disposed at a suitable distance below the grain-deck, and said packer-shaft is provided at its rear end with a sprocket-wheel 55, which engages the endless sprocket-chain 56*, and hence power is communicated to the packer-shaft and the same is rotated when the machine is in operation, as will be understood. A roller-shaft 39, which is journaled in bearings 40 under the inclined grain-deck 30, extends transversely under the same, near the upper end or side thereof, and said shaft has a spur-wheel 38 fast on its rear end, which spur-wheel engages the spur-wheel 37 on shaft 32. Hence power is communicated to the roller-shaft 39. An idle roller-shaft 41 is likewise journaled in bearings 42 under the grain-deck, at a suitable distance from the upper end of said grain-deck, and said rollershafts 39 41 are connected together by endless traveling butt and head packer belts or aprons 43 44, the upper leads of which are disposed slightly above the grain-deck,as shown. Said packer belts or aprons travel upwardly on the grain-deck, as indicated by the arrows in Figs. 3 and 4.

So much of a binding mechanism is shown in the drawings as will suffice to enable the cooperation of the packer belts or aprons therewith to be understood, the stop-arms being indicated by the reference-numeral 103, the packer-arms by the numeral 95, the needle-arm by the numeral 91, and the knotterarm by the numeral 89. The knotting mechanism for tying the binding-cord and the trip mechanism for arresting the rotation of the knotte r-arm are not shown.

On the lower side of the inclined grain-deck are pivoted gates 105, which are normally supported by suitable springs 106 at a right angle to and above the grain-deck, as shown. Said gates, while effective to prevent the falling of loose grain from the grain-deck, yield to the weight of gavels or sheaves which press against them after the same have been released by the rocking stop-arms 103 and permit said gavels or sheaves to be discharged from the grain-deck to the ground.

The packer belts or aprons 43 44, which, as hereinbefore stated, travel in the direction indicated by the arrows, the upper leads thereof moving upwardly on the graindeck, serve to arrest the descent of the grain by gravity on the grain-deck and to dispose the grain in masses preparatory to their engagement by the packer-arms and stop-arms 103 in the formation of the gavels, and, moreover, said packer belts or aprons serve to even the butts ,and heads of the grain while forming the same into such masses preparatory to the formation of the gavels.

On the front and rear sides of the graindeck are wings 107, which are pivoted at their upper ends on the grain-deck, as shown at 108, and said Wings are adapted'to be adjusted laterally on the grain-deck, so that their lower ends may be set at any required distance apart corresponding with the length of the grain which is being cut and bound, said wings serving, as the grain descends on the grain-deck and is acted upon by the packer belts or aprons, to even the grain longitudinally, so that the heads and cut butts thereof are disposed in substantially the same planes, thereby greatly facilitating the binding and formation of the gavels and, furthermore, making said gavels more compact than would be otherwise possible.

In the form of my invention here shown the wings 107 are designed to be adjusted manually. It will be understood that any suitable means, as stop-pins or the like, may be employed for securing the said wings at any desired adjustment on the grain-deck.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a harvesting-machine, endless traveling packer-belts one or more traveling on horizontal rollers and having the upper lead on the grain-deck and means to actuate said packer-belts so that their said leads travel upward on said grain-deck, for the purpose set forth, substantially as described.

2. In a harvesting-machine, the combination with an inclined grain-deck and binding mechanism, of endless traveling packer belts or aprons on horizontal rollers and having the upper lead on the upper side of said graindeck and means to actuate said packer-belts so that their said leads travel upward on said grain-deck, substantially as described.

3. In a harvesting-machine, the combination with an inclined grain-deck and binding mechanism, of endless traveling butt and head packer belts or aprons on horizontal rollers and having the upper lead on the upper side of said grain-deck and means to actuate said packer-belts so that their said leads travel upward on said grain-deck, said packer belts or aprons being disposed on opposite sides of the binding mechanism, substantially as described.

4. In a harvesting-machine, an inclined grain-deck and binding mechanism, in combination with endless traveling packer-belts on horizontal rollers, and having the upper lead on the grain-deck means to actuate said packer-belts so that their said leads travel upward on said grain-deck and laterally adjustable wings on said grain-deck, for the purpose set forth, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY BRAOKEBUSH.

Witnesses:

F. J. DODGE, ARTHUR J. BARRY. 

